Gambling Quotations | Page 5

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...

Beat him, eat him and get out.

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

There is no gambling like politics.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

The Devil invented gambling.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.